In 1993 I had the pleasure of going on a tour of LA dwp's Owens valley la aqueduct we started out at the Van Norman reservoir and the treatment plant there for the water comes into the valley Alan we went out to castaic to look at la did WPS power station hydroelectric station there at the back of castaic lake where they recycle the water from lake pyramid lake using it during the day to generate powers and then at night pumping it back up to the lake. Then we went on the 14 freeway up to Owens valley and reviewed how the water is captured and that many of the canyons that have streams in them have a hydroelectric plant there so they generate electricity also for the local area and the water goes into the pipeline the aqueduct at lake Crowley if I remember correctly and then from then on until it gets to the San Fernando valley it's either on an aqueduct or in a pipe it's not exposed to elements that are evaporation for the whole length from the Owens San Fernando Valley. The tour was very informative and very well laid out as to the aqueduct from the Owens valley to LA Mulholland did a very good job of getting water efficiently to Los Angeles. Unlike the California aqueduct which is open air and loses a great deal of water during the summer to evaporation as it head south to other parts of Los Angeles orange and San Diego county 70% of the water that la uses is from the Owens valley and the rest 30% is made up from state water and groundwater pumping which they do a very good job of recharging the groundwater in the valley. A part of the groundwater recharge or spreading ponds near the five and the 170 freeway also further up along the five and the 405 and then there's the headwaters project that takes the water out of the LA River there near Griffith Park at travel Town I'm Mount Sinai and allows that water to percolate through the soil to recharge the groundwater so Los Angeles is making best use of water than any other municipality in the state. And I am John q citizen I am a retired landscape contractor that was stationed in Burbank California. At the same time that the Panama canal and the LA Owens valley aqueduct or being built there was other projects that were going on at the same time. One of which was my grandfather was in charge of as the first resident engineer for the bureau of reclamation of the Colorado River and one of his jobs was to select sites for new dams to control the flooding of the river. Then later on the supervised the construction of the imperial diversion dam which is near Yuma Arizona and they all American canal which brought water from the Colorado River El Centro California and they imperial valley all the way up to the Coachella valley and the farmers in the imperial valley paid for the All-American canal it was not built by the government it was supervised by the bureau of reclamation.
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William Mulholland. To some, a hero, to some, a scoundrel.
No one can give a history lesson of Wm Mulholland and SFV as good as Cathering Mulholland. Sorry she is no longer with us.
In 1993 I had the pleasure of going on a tour of LA dwp's Owens valley la aqueduct we started out at the Van Norman reservoir and the treatment plant there for the water comes into the valley Alan we went out to castaic to look at la did WPS power station hydroelectric station there at the back of castaic lake where they recycle the water from lake pyramid lake using it during the day to generate powers and then at night pumping it back up to the lake. Then we went on the 14 freeway up to Owens valley and reviewed how the water is captured and that many of the canyons that have streams in them have a hydroelectric plant there so they generate electricity also for the local area and the water goes into the pipeline the aqueduct at lake Crowley if I remember correctly and then from then on until it gets to the San Fernando valley it's either on an aqueduct or in a pipe it's not exposed to elements that are evaporation for the whole length from the Owens San Fernando Valley. The tour was very informative and very well laid out as to the aqueduct from the Owens valley to LA Mulholland did a very good job of getting water efficiently to Los Angeles. Unlike the California aqueduct which is open air and loses a great deal of water during the summer to evaporation as it head south to other parts of Los Angeles orange and San Diego county 70% of the water that la uses is from the Owens valley and the rest 30% is made up from state water and groundwater pumping which they do a very good job of recharging the groundwater in the valley. A part of the groundwater recharge or spreading ponds near the five and the 170 freeway also further up along the five and the 405 and then there's the headwaters project that takes the water out of the LA River there near Griffith Park at travel Town I'm Mount Sinai and allows that water to percolate through the soil to recharge the groundwater so Los Angeles is making best use of water than any other municipality in the state. And I am John q citizen I am a retired landscape contractor that was stationed in Burbank California.
At the same time that the Panama canal and the LA Owens valley aqueduct or being built there was other projects that were going on at the same time. One of which was my grandfather was in charge of as the first resident engineer for the bureau of reclamation of the Colorado River and one of his jobs was to select sites for new dams to control the flooding of the river. Then later on the supervised the construction of the imperial diversion dam which is near Yuma Arizona and they all American canal which brought water from the Colorado River El Centro California and they imperial valley all the way up to the Coachella valley and the farmers in the imperial valley paid for the All-American canal it was not built by the government it was supervised by the bureau of reclamation.
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